If you’re interested in learning more about the history of inequity, fighting racism, and being more inclusive, here are a few ideas to help you get started. The Siuslaw Public Library District can help you find additional resources.
Books/Audiobooks
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
By Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen
Available free through The Ford Family Foundation’s Select Books program
How to be an Antiracist
By Ibram X. Kendi
In Siuslaw Public Library collection and available through their ebook program
So You Want to Talk About Race
By Ijeoma Oluo
In Siuslaw Public Library collection and available through their ebook program
Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World
By Jack Weatherford
Available free through The Ford Family Foundation’s Select Books program
People’s History of the United States
By Howard Zinn
In Siuslaw Public Library collection and available through their ebook program
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
By James W. Loewen
In Siuslaw Public Library collection and available through their ebook program
Book Lists
Eugene Weekly Essential Reading list
BookBub’s List of Educational Books on Fighting Racism
Elizabeth’s Bookshop + Writing Centre is an innovative literacy center designed to amplify and celebrate marginalized voices. The catalog highlights, promotes, amplifies, celebrates, and honors the work of writers who are often excluded from traditional cultural, social, and academic canons.
Internet resources
LaneKids Talking About Race – LaneKids staff have compiled a number of resources on race and racism, with the intent of giving you ways to educate yourself, teach the children in your life, and act locally.
Talking About Race – Resource from the National Museum of African American History and Culture that provides tools and guidance to empower your journey and inspire conversation.
Zinn Education Project offers free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and grade level. Based on the approach to history highlighted in Howard Zinn’s best-selling book A People’s History of the United States, the teaching materials emphasize the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history.
New York Times A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters
Timeline and book list
Looking Back In Order to Move Forward: An Often Untold History Affecting Oregon’s Past, Present and Future
Timeline of Oregon and U.S. Racial, Immigration and Education History from 8,000 BCE to 2010
Podcasts
5 Podcasts To Listen To If You Really Want To Know About Race In America
Code Switch, on NPR – a multi-racial, multi-generational team of journalists fascinated by the overlapping themes of race, ethnicity and culture, how they play out in our lives and communities, and how all of this is shifting.
Unlocking Us with Brené Brown – Recommended episodes include conversations with Dr. Clint Smith, Tarana Burke and Jason Reynolds, Dr. Yaba Blay, Ibram X. Kendi and Austin Channing Brown on the topics of antiracism and race.
For children & families
Creating Compassionate Kids: Essential Conversations to Have with Young Children
By Shauna Tominey
Available free through The Ford Family Foundation’s Select Books program
What Do You Stand For? For Kids: A Guide to Building Character
By Barbara A. Lewis
Available free through The Ford Family Foundation’s Select Books program
The Hate You Give (young adult fiction)
By Angie Thomas
In Siuslaw Public Library collection and available through their ebook program
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
By Vashti Harrison
Available through the Siuslaw Public Library District ebook program
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (young adult)
By Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
In Siuslaw Public Library collection and available through their ebook program
Antiracist Baby (board book for babies and toddlers)
How to explain racism to kids – CNN’s Van Jones and Erica Hill partner with “Sesame Street” for Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism, a town hall for kids and families. Watch the town hall in its entirety
Children’s Book Lists
Huffington Post Instagram list
Nonprofit EmbraceRace offers a comprehensive list of diverse books for children, as well as links to blogs and other resources.
Recommendations from a preschool teacher
Video
Simple video explaining systemic racism – YouTube
13th – Available through Netflix
Recommendations for family movie night